my arse they're

i have somehow gotten through life just fine without ever touching amazon, weird huh?

when it comes to history a good rule of thumb is that anything mainstream is complete nonsense, just actually made up.

8x8 = 16x4 = 32x2 = 64
OR
play minecraft for 3 years straight

7, 14, ...21? uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

i'm not quite sure how that would work since pilgrimages and other long-distance travel was pretty normal, and there was no way to transfer information faster than said travel (especially not just to get papers on a random pilgrim).

as opposed to my very advanced ass

copper would be the main problem, because there's a reason "cuprous" is basically the same word as "cyprus"..

Ironically iron is much easier to get your hands on than copper, it just requires some knowledge to turn into something useful. With copper you can just find it in a cliff if you're lucky, yank that out and hammer it into shape with a rock.

Depending on the precise time period, i wonder if you could manage it by using scented soap and insisting that people get sick because the surgeon's hands smell bad.

which is why you should learn about medieval technology, that's something you can generally make from scratch with a team of workers.

Yeah if you only have stone tools it'll probably be shitty, but a shitty waterwheel that spins a shitty lathe is still plenty useful. It's kind of nuts how much luxury you can get in no time at all if you just know what's possible to make.

and this is why we stan open, easy to modify hardware.

AFAIK it can still cause cancer no matter who you are, that's why i jumped on the offer for a free vaccine.